Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ribh]

Can't sleep?@RoyalChick

 

[RoyalChick]

Can't sleep?@RoyalChick

Yeah. Cat woke me up. I went to bed super early because I got chilled being outside all day when I wasn’t adequately bundled up. So I went to bed to defrost and fell asleep before supper! Cat now super excited I am awake and wants to play.

 

[Ribh]

Yeah. Cat woke me up. I went to bed super early because I got chilled being outside all day when I wasn’t adequately bundled up. So I went to bed to defrost and fell asleep before supper! Cat now super excited I am awake and wants to play.

I hate doing that. It can throw me off for days.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 66 with rain off and on.

Have a great day!

 

[fuentemoon]

I love the big cats, but wouldn't want one in my yard!

 

[Shadrach]

Not sure I understand correctly, if your question is the location of the coop, it's a vaulted basement just underneath our kitchen/living room. Used to be a small barn and turned into a coop in the 50s. It's the open door on the photo.View attachment 3021108

Yep, that was what I wanted to know.

 

[Shadrach]

A chicken that has tasted freedom will always find a way through used fencing .
And she may teach others. I wouldn't be surprised if you find more than three outside one of these days!

I've had to block the hole in the fence they were getting through up for now. I can't always be watching them when I'm doing coop cleaning etc. Once I've got the main gate to the allotments more secure it won't matter as much.

 

[Shadrach]

Wet again yesterday.

 

[Shadrach]

Vanille and Caramel that were laying at night began to do so as young pullets and where they slept there was only 30 cm under them. Then they moved to roosting on the ladder, so that there was about a 1.80 m. (6 feet) fall for the hen roosting on top, but the eggs almost never broke. The ground is beaten earth covered in hay. We wondered for weeks if there was a way to force them to change their laying hour but eventually one stopped and the other a month after her.

Two years ago pullets roosting

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She knows she should have been born a hen.
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Something like this is the type of chicken house I saw on the farms and smallholdings in Spain, France and Italy. With a minimum amount of work, main door made secure and the windows properly dealt with one would be hard pressed to find anything more secure and easier to maintain.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 62 with rain off and on.

Have a great day!